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Where does the "woke mob" come into this? As far as I can tell there hasn't been a public campaign to censor the books. Rather, these changes came from the Dahl
by mbStavola 4y ago
Where does the "woke mob" come into this? As far as I can tell there hasn't been a public campaign to censor the books. Rather, these changes came from the Dahl Story Company and Penguin Random House, so this is good old fashion capitalism through-and-through. No one asked for a reason to repurchase novels that were already 50+ years old besides the people who own the rights to these books.
- PM_me_your_math 4y agoThe only group lurid enough to vandalize the story are the woke zombie cry-bullies. Their campaign is to burn down western culture and replace it with something that closely resembles intellectual gonorrhea.
- jrmg 4y agoPlease, try to be civil. It’s really hard for anyone with different views to seriously engage with you when you’re making such an abrasive presentation. Civil discussion is traditionally a value of the western culture you prize so much.
- PM_me_your_math 4y agoCivil like burning down and looting businesses that don't fly a particular flag? ...or pulling the fire alarms at venues when a speaker is presenting something you disagree with? Or civil like destroying timeless stories with emotional garbage and inserting woke ideology into things that have nothing to do with the zealotry? On the contrary, I'm being perfectly civil. Colorful descriptions that profess my disdain for the left's new mind-diarrhea is not even close to incivility. If you don't like my descriptions, then the proper course is to ask yourself why people might take issue with cry-bullies.
- jrmg 4y agoI mean, you’re really not being civil by any description of it I’d recognize. Accusing me of being okay with arson? ‘Mind-diarrhea’? Are you at all open to discussion? I’m projecting my own views a lot here, but I am pretty sure you’re not going to be swaying anyone even remotely left of center (most of whom would never engage in the acts you’re listing - and many of whom _are_ uneasy about many of the changes to Dahl’s works that sparked this discussion) in your direction by projecting such an angry, abrasive demeanor. I really worry about the state of online discourse. I’d be willing to bet that if we were to sit down and discuss this over a beverage in real life this isn’t how the discussion would go.
- PM_me_your_math 4y agoI'd still call it mind-diarrhea, but I'd definitely buy first round, and we'd likely part as friends, even if you didn't like my characterizations.
- proffeatur8 4y ago[dead]